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RE: error connecting to mysql
From: "Lance Boon" <lboon () firststatebanksw com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:31:10 -0600
Are you sure that you defined all the connection information that you need in the acid_conf.php file? That's what it looks like to me if you were successfully able to connect to your local MySQL server "mysql -u snort -p snort" Subject: [Snort-users] error connecting to mysql I followed the instructions of the setup manual one by one posted on snort.org (at least I believe I did so) to setup Snort on Fedora core 3. But after setting up ACID and testing http://localhost/acid/acid_main.php I get the following error Error (p)connecting to DB : snort@localhost Check the DB connection variables in acid_conf.php = $alert_dbname : MySQL database name where the alerts are stored = $alert_host : host where the database is stored = $alert_port : port where the database is stored = $alert_user : username into the database = $alert_password : password for the username Database ERROR:Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) I checked to see if mysql was running with netstat and I checked to see if I could login to mysql as "snort" user. Both resulted positive. I checked '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' to see if the file was created and it was there, also the permission were 777 so to me looked fine. Do you have any suggestions what the problem might be ? Gentian
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- error connecting to mysql Gentian Hila (Nov 16)
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- RE: error connecting to mysql Lance Boon (Nov 16)
- Re: error connecting to mysql Senthil Prabu.S (Nov 18)